--" he looked at the other doubtfully. To
poor Tom Pargeter, "doing something" always meant parting with money,
and Laurence Vanderlyn was, if not rich, then quite well off.

Vanderlyn's hand suddenly shook. He dropped the piece of paper he had
been holding. "Perhaps you'll let me have Jasper sometimes--in the
holidays," he said, huskily.

"Lord, yes! Of course I will! There's nothing would please poor Peggy
more! Then--then when will you start, Grid? I mean for Orange?"

"At once," said Vanderlyn. Then he looked long, hesitatingly at
Pargeter, and the millionaire, with most unusual perspicacity, read and
answered the question contained in that strange, uncertain gaze.

"Don't bring her back, Grid! I couldn't stand a big funeral here. I
don't want to hear any more about it than I can help! Of course, it
isn't much good my going over to England _now_; but I won't stay in
Paris, I'll get away,--right away for a bit, on the yacht,--and take
some of the crowd with me."

* * * * *

No one ever knew the truth. To the Prefect of Police the mystery of the
disappearance of Mrs. Pargeter is still unsolved--unsolvable. When he
meets a pretty woman out at dinner he tells her the story--and asks her
what she thinks.

As for Laurence Vanderlyn, he has gone home--home to the old colonial
house which was built by his great-grandfather, the friend of Franklin,
on the shores of Lake Champlain. He never speaks of Peggy excepting to
Jasper; but to the lad he sometimes talks of her as if she were still
there, still very near to them both, near enough to be grieved if her
boy should ever forget that he had a mother who loved him dearly.

THE END.

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